Eastern Sun, 20 November 1970

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  • 21 1 EASTERN SUN Singapore's own national daily 10 cents €sil 1966. Vol. 5 No. 1503 Friday, November 20, 1970 MC (P) 1616
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  • 108 1 While London organisers for the Miss World Contest were waiting yesterday for Miss Singapore, she was at home unaware that she was supposed to take part. Miss Singapore Cecilia Undasan, is still completely mystified about who should represent Singapore at the contest. Apparently
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  • 281 1 ITUALA LUMPUR One of two men who set out to get revenge against an unfaithful wife was yesterday shot dead by police. The other was seriously wounded, Negri Sembilan CID chief, Hasnan bin Abdul Aziz, said. The men were shot at Kampong
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  • 139 1 AMMAN Fighting broke out in Amman yesterday with both sides peppering the city with mortars, grenades and machinegun fire. A truce team source ■aid the clashes were sparked by armed raiders attacking several government police stations In Amman. "We believe the raiders were from
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  • 56 1 MCKAY, Queensland—A young Malay midshipman from Singapore with the Royal Australian Navy drowned while taking part in a foot race around a holiday island 20 miles north of here, a post-mortem revealed yesterday. The midshipman, a Malay from Singapore aged about 19, was one of five Singapore
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  • 57 1 LONDON—Britain's tenshilling paper note will cease to be legal currency from today, the latest step in the switch to decimal currency, which comes full* into operation next February. The decimal successor to the ten -shilling note is the SOP coin of which 180 million are already In circulation (the
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
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  • 555 3 A grief-stricken mother told the High Court yesterdoy how her daughter often bemoaned her illfated life and had contemplated suicide many times. Yesterday, the crowded courtroom wos filled with woilings as Madam Leong Kuan Fong confronted her daughter she was crying in the witness
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  • 100 3 A man found his mother-in-law hanging from a window grill Just as he entered her room to inform her of his business trip to Hong Kong. Businessman C h i a Kim. 52, said this at the Coroner's inquiry yester- day into the death of Madam
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  • 58 3 TING Tiong Gee, 30 was yesterday fined $2,000 when he pleaded guilty to acting as a bookmaker in an fllegal lottery before Magistrate Anwarul Haque. The court was told that Ting was arrested together with three other persons in a house in Geylang by a raiding party led
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  • 28 3 PATMIN bin Karimin, 32, from Batu Pahat was killed instarvtly when he was hit by lightning while working at a worksite at Woodlands Road, yesterday.
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  • 130 3 CHRISTMAS bells will peal load and clear for the children of members of the Singapore Mercantile Co-operative Thrift and Loan Society. For they will enjoy an exclusive Grand Children X'mas Treat at the Wonderland Amusement Park on December 20 from 1.30 6.30 p.m.
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  • 119 3 Loo Hock Choon, 18. a hawker who was stabbed to death on Wednesday night, wanted to be A good soldier. His rather Loo Buck Keng, 45. also a hawker, said yesterday that the dead son was very anxious to Join the army and
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  • 208 3 A soldier who alleged to have punched a police officer was acquitted due to discrepancies is the evidence of witnesses. The Seventh Magistrate, Mr. Leong Keng Thai in granting the acquittal said these discrepancies were far from minor. G. Gopal was originally charged with assaulting Inspector M.
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  • 70 3 SINGAPOREANS will be able to attend a course on Health Education for the first time. A series of 16 lectures on "General Health Education" will be held at the Institute of Health every Wednesday starting January 6 next year. Organised jointly by the Adult Education
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  • 58 3 FIRE broke out at Lim Motor Trading Company at Balestier Road, at 8.15 p.m. yesterday gutting the ground floor causing about $20,000 damage. The fire was believed to have been caused by either an electrical short circuit or burning candles for worshipping. Four fire engines
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  • 46 3 A youth. Abdullah Bin Hassan, was fined $l5O, in the Ninth Magistrate's Court, for possession of half a kartoo of Indian hemp valued at $l. Hassan, who had a previous conviction, admitted to having the hemp on Wednesday at 8.40 p.m. at Scotts Road.
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous


  • 249 5 RUALA LUMPUR The Maloysion government is considering legislation similar to Singapore to regulate stock exchange dealings in the country, the Minister of Finance, Tun Tan Siew Sin announced here yesterday. In o statement, he said the legislation "to be enacted in due course" will
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  • 61 5 CATAMARCA, Argentina Army troops have taken over this city Of about 40.000 after a night of violence sparked by a police strike for higher pa v left one person dead and 11 others wounded. The incidents started when about 300 policemen. one-fourth of Catamarca's total force,
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  • 88 5 TAJPING A completely white monkey of the Kera species, believed to be the only one, has been presented to the soo by a resident of a kampong seven miles from here. Hie donor who would not disclose his identity or where he got the monkey, had roared It
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  • 74 5 IPOH A driver of a newspaper van, Chuah Kooi Choo was fined $125 and had his driving licence endorsed when he oleaded guilty to a reduced charge of negligent driving in the Magistrate's Court yesterday. The court had been told that Chuah's van was involved in
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  • 16 5 JAKARTA Firecracker explosions have killed 22 persons in Indonesia since the beginning of this month.
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  • 141 5 NEW DELHI The government is considering a suggestion to allow the British Broadcasting Corporation to reopen its office in India. Foreign Minister Swaran Singh said a suggestion from the British Government that the BBC should be allowed to resume operations was being considered.
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  • 118 5 The prosecution In the trial of a British soldier accused of murdering a middle-aged prostitute yesterday asked the jury to return a verdict of manslaughter. Prosecution counsel Mr. Max Lucas was making his final statement on the fourth day of the trial of private George Denis Unsworth,
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  • 153 5 Krata Singh, a watchman. ig being sited up for an interesting job as Santa Claug for Malaya Publishing House. He was one of several people who answered a "wanted a 42-inch waist" ad inserted in a newspaper recently. Mr. Singh, whose waist measures 43} inches,
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  • 212 5 KUALA LUMPUR Sabah it to have television by December next year and a "superb" telephone system covering the whole state by February 1972, the Minister of Works, Posts and Telecommunications Tun V.T. Sambanthan said yesterday. These two modem mean 8 of communications
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  • 148 5 KUALA LUMPUR The Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Subang will be ready to take on Jumbo jets by 1972, the Minister of Transport Dato Abdul Ghani Gilong •aid yesterday. "Proper work on the modification programme which will cost about $lO million will begin next
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous

  • 668 6 Mitchell trial FORT HOOD Paul Meadlo, who hat publicly admitted slaughtering civilian* at My Lai, refused to testify at the court martial of his former Sergeant, David Mitchell, yesterday. Meadlo and Allen Boyc«. a fellow member of "Charlie Oompany," both invoked the fifth
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  • 72 6 Haeberle took some sensational pictures during the My Lai operation and later sold them to newspapers and magazines. Under rigorous examination Haeberle said that fear of the Army was one reason he did not disclose the colour pictures he had taken with his
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  • 435 6 TRIAL OF LT. CALLEY FT. BENNING, Georgia A former Army combat photographer testified yesterday he watched an American soldier pump automatic weapon fire into a group of Vietnamese civilians in the village of My Lai, but said he did not see First Lt.
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  • 499 8 ARSENAL OF ARMS FOUND IN COLLEGE CHICAGO Police responding to a report of a woman being shot have found an arsenal of firearms, ammunition and a supply of Black Panther literature at a college janitor's apartment. Floyd Thomas, 26, who was employed at Malcolm X College an<]
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  • 68 8 Lethal launch of a Falcon missile (near nose, of plane) by an Air National Guard F-102 fighter interceptor resulted in a "kill" of a simulated enemy bomber. Action took place during Aerospace Defence Command's weapons meet at Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida. Nine teams from the
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  • 280 8 WASHINGTON Free trade advocates have lost to a controversial Bill that could lead to import quotas on a broad range of foreign products. The test of strength In the House of Representatives came on the procedural question of whether the Bill could be amended.
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  • 148 8 LONDON Lord George-Brown made his debut in the House of Lords and gave his fellow peers a taste of the fiery style which made him famous as plain George Brown in the House Of Commons. The former Labour Foreign Secretary was involved within minutes of
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  • 253 8 PARIS— Geoffrey Rippon, Britain t chief Common Market entry negotiator, declared that European economic integration could lead to effective defence co-operation later. "Europe is on the move and our possibilities In the field of defence will depend on our achievements elsewhere," he
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  • 442 10 US Presiden t Richard Nixon haa rer' quested Congress for supplementary foreign aid, the major part of which will go to the Middle East and Southeast Asia Not only does he want the defence potential of Israel boosted but he also wants to give some aid to
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  • 242 10 fTHE anger of Indonesian students is someA thing that should make President Suharto sit up and think. And the warning that "the students are all very angry" comes from no less a man than Adnan Buyung Nasution, a former student leader who is now a lawyer. Late President
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  • 667 10  -  By Keith Aberdein, Pirate radio stations around the world have either vanished or been forgotten as a bore from the sixties. But in New Zealand one pirate has survived, and flourished. After four years of shipwreck, court cases, legislation and finally drowning, Radio
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  • 411 10  -  By Dick West, Washington A news press release from the Interior Department begins: "Whailes are not the world's best house pets and That Is as far into the release as I read. I figured that any opening declaration as misleading a nd obviously biased as that one couldn't
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
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  • TODAY'S WORLD
    • 458 11  -  From SEAGHAN MAYNES Defence Secretory Lord Carrington warned yesterday it would be perilous for Britain and Commonwealth nations bordering the Indian Ocean to ignore the dangers of Russian infiltration. The Soviet Union was not concerned solely with the NATO area, he told
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    • 139 11 WASHINGTON The U.S. State Department says the possibility of building defence facilities on British islands in the Indian Ocean is under active review. No decision has been made. Spokesman Robert McCloskey declined to go farther in discussing Pre reports from Ad State*, and
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  • 1211 12/13 THE MORNNG AFTER with Weatherbee Wong T'M in frouble again, folks. Big trouble. J- It appears that last Sunday's column about reprehensible behind the bar habits in this town has not added to my list of admirers. In fact, every second barman in town thinks
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  • Page 12/13 Advertisements
    • 317 12/13 SINGAPORE LM The Lady U back on the high soos Atfitlti The mme romantic cruises. excellent food and service at surprisingly reasonable price*! Dining out under the stars or dancing In the Malacca Uom For reservation* call M 3131. prro^lo fhc«(r» NightClub BESO DE EBFANA Ole..dances and songs of Bpain-Old
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    • 157 12/13 GOLDEN JADE DOOM Specialists in Peking Shanghainese food F°f reservations telephone ***** i I s M x COFFEE HOUSE STEAK HOUSE GUEST ROOM Welcome to Metrooole the Hotel which is situated in the heart of the city with panoramic view of Merdeka Bridge and the sea front. It offers you
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    • 46 12/13 J&B Rare-rare as in goIcL Pale, as in gold. Pure, as ingolcL Finer in blend.) Finer in taste. Smooth, not rough. Pale, not dark. With yet a silky strength that belies its gentle nature. fIH J B Rare. As in gold. Eg J<B Rare Scotch Whisky
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  • 855 14  -  By Desmond Zwar, It is a fact of life in the electronic 70's thot an ordinary British housewife, out shopping in London or a provincial city, can be under television surveillance almost every minute of tha day even at home. Electronic gadgetry is
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  • 409 14  -  By LAWRENCE E. LAMB. M.D. Exercise, like any medicine, oxygen or sunshine has an optimal level for each person. The simple truth Is that proper exercise can save your life and protect your health. The wrong kind and amount of exercise can harm your
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  • 19 14 Worry never robs tomorrow of Its sorrow, bat only saps today of its strength A.J. Cronin, British author
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous


  • 300 16  -  by Sara Lambert The signature of Princes* Anne tells more about ber character than all the words that have been written. Tbls b the opinion of graphologist Prank Delino, famous handwriting espert. Here fe basically, a Modest, nnin»>. ailed personality,. entirely free from artificialities, say Dellno.
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  • 727 16  -  By Florence de Santis little American girls descended on London lost week for seven days of sightseeing, posing for pliotogrophs and going through o contest. They were aged 10 to 18, and this was one contest that had nothing to do with "beauty/* although they
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  • WOMEN
    • 455 17  -  by Marianne Pereira Christmas this year is going to be more beautiful than ever before because of the stunning new gifts available to shoppers. Beauty counters in Singapore will be filled with fragrances, beauty kits and cute little perfume flacons. Shelshedo has brought out a new
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    • 130 17 Made-made diamonds have been around for some time, but only in the small sizes and quality used for industrial purposes. Now, however, the years of work by chemists have paid off. and the Linde Simulated Diamond, of gem siie and qua'ity, has been introduced, joins the Linde Stars
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    • 163 17 Keiko Shimasoe hM an innocent wide-eyed look which matches her peaches and cream complexion but she doesn't mind whether or not the man of her dreams is tall, dark and handsome. She can afford to bs choosy, too. All she wants Is
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    • 425 17  -  Ann Landers Dear Ann: In regard to the woman who is so uptight about the "affair" her family doctor is having with one of his patients: Please tell her to cat It oat and mind her own business. Just because a woman foes to the doctor's
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 1650 18 LOOKING AND LISTENING....^ I CARROLL RIOHTER'S I from the Carroll (lighter Institute GENERAL TENDENCIES: Several interesting opportunities are now present. You can improve your position as long as there is breadth of scope to your plan. You are well equipped with a good basic knowledge of the course you wish
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  • Students' page
    • Article, Illustration
      364 19 The word 'Chinatown' it familiar fa everyone living in Singapore and it it known as the heart of the City. Although it it an old place, yet many visitort like to see it. In the Chinatown area, rows of old houses stand on either side of the streets. The
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    • 852 19  -  DATELINE By Ele, Wall Dulaney DBAS WALT: Next summer I*«i like to b«y my own car. My folks said if I earned half the money, they'd match it. Well, I have a job and the pa? is good. But there's a
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    • 298 19 Villagers are usually healthier than the ones living In towns. One reason for this is that country air is fresher. The air In cities la smoky. A villager Is out all day In the fields, breathing fresh and clean air while the air breathed by urban people Is
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  • Page 19 Advertisements
    • 191 19 ESSAY CONTEST: Rules to observe i The Eastern Sun's essay writing contest tor boys end girls of 14 and under (Junior) and boys and girls over 14 (Senior) appears in tfcis page from Monday to Friday. Prize money is; $lO for Seniors end $5 for lunlors every essay published All
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  • 324 20 (SELLERS tended to dominote the floor in mild trading on the Stock Exchonge of Moloysio ond Singopore yesterday* After an almost unchanged opening majority of issues staged moderate rally at small buying interest was injected into the market. However In the afternoon, easier tendencies were In
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  • 252 20 December first grade rubber buyers closed at 5 p.m. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur yesterday at 53-1/2 cents per lb. down 1/2 cent from tl»e previous close. The tone of the market was quiet. In contrast to yesterday's activity the morning market was very quiet. Levels fluctuated
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  • 167 20 Rank Xerox Ltd recently announced the appointment of Mr. Beah Keng Suan as its new General Manager for the Singapore and Malaysia region. Mr. Beah, 38, first joined the company In 1966, as Its Chief Accountant. He has had training in various management courses conducted by Rank
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  • 112 20 BONG KONG Yesterday's 5 p.m. currency rates (supplied by Foreign Exchange and Investment Ltd.): <Bo?ers) (Sellers) 195.8 190.8 per 100 Straits dollars 149 151 per 1.000 Taiwan dollars 6.70 8.77 A per Australian doilai 340 360 per 1.000 Burmese kyats 600 520 per 1.000 Indian rupees 148 163
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  • 659 20 BID and offer prices officially listed at the close of business In the Singapore and Kuala Lumpur trading rooms of the Stock Exchange yesterday were: INDUSTRIALS B. 8. Acuta li 3 1.28 AJtaomoto 180 1.98 AEM 1.29 1.34 Allied Choc 2-50 Btl, M 95 Berjay* J8 JHH Borneo
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  • 842 20 BUSINESS done In and reported to the trading rooms of the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore with the number of shares traded in brackets in lots of 1,000 units unless otherwise specified. INDUSTRIALS ACMA $124 (1); Ajinonioto $l9O (1>: Ben 90 cts (1); Br r jay a
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  • 83 20 THB noon prices Singapore fhlnw Exchange yesterday at the Produce was:Coconut Oil (f.o.b.) balk fii.o# Coconut OH </°-b drum 63.00 Mixed Copra M S« Muntok v\ nit* Pepper < f.o.b.) A8TA 100% N.W.L. 182.50 Sarawak White Pepper (f.o.b.) #6% N.W.L. 172.50 Sarawak Special Black Pepper (f.o.h.) u$% N.W.L. 100
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  • 377 21 CYDNEY Sellers yesterday reversed Wednesday's bright trading on Sydney Stock Exchange. Mjffcet performance fee Australian stocks on Hie London Exchange t urn ed downward overnight and this was attributed as one of the prime factois in downward trend yesterday. Trading began at a slow pace and
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  • 484 21 ARRIVALS 145 am. MSA 12ft Kuala lompnr 7.30 a.in MSA 123 Kuala Lumpur IM n MsA 45* Koala Lampur 11 !■> »jb. MSA 454 P**iMa|> Koala t uuipur UJMt m MSA 203 Jakarta 1 JOpm MSA 451 K«rhlng I i».m MSA #4l Kola Rubra. Kuala Lumpur. Malacca 5
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  • 262 21 Th« market, having drifted lower since the change to December as current month i n very slack and thin conditions to reach a low of 51 k cents, wag Jerked abruptly out of it* languor by the reappearance of the People's Republic of China upon tiie scene
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  • Page 21 Advertisements
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    • 986 21 TENDER NOTICES COVERNMCNT Of THE REPUBLIC Of SINGAPORE THE LOCAL COVERNMENT INTEGRATION ORDINANCE. 1961 (NO. 18 Or 1963) Notice under Section 19(10) WHEREAS to excrclas of the powers conferred by Hubs<i-tioQ el) and (3) of Section 19 of the Local Oovermnent Integration Ordinance. 1993 (hereinafter referred to as the Ordinance")
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  • 3146 22 SATURDAY Race l: CI. 4 Div. 5—6 F.—2.15 p.m. ($7,500) 1. ***** Fame Shoes (1. King's Hope) 6y 9.00 Rose (Samsuri) PK Leong 2 5. 84 Tae-Kwon-Do 3y 900 Hankok (Tulloh) Nelson 17 3. ***** Base Metal By 900 Happy Time (Samsuri) Subian 14 4. ***** Panmoray
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  • 223 23 NEWCOMER Jack of Spades displayed good action in a trial here yesterday morning. With Sonny Ng up, Jack of Spades sprinted smartly over 3f in 38 2/5 on a yielding track. Jack of Spades, a four-year-old Ismone gelding ha a one wl n to
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  • 375 23 DETROIT, Michigan Joe Fraxier retained kit World Heavyweight boxing title in Detroit's Cobo Hall by smashing his Light Heavyweight challenger Bob Foster to the canvas in the 49th second of the second round. Foster never had the remotest hope of beating the count as he sprawled helplessly
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  • 65 23 WEMBIJCY. England English southpaw Roger Taylor Wednesday continued the run of upsets at the S$ 180.000 Embassy tennis championships by beating sixth seeded Roy Emerson of Australia in straight sets. Taylor had little difficulty in defeating Emerson, 6-3, 6-2 to qualify for a quarter-Anal match with third
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  • 140 23 LONDON The Royal Automobile Club yesterday confirmed all provisional placing* in tt« round Britain car rally which ended her® Wednesday. Harry KalLstrom ol Sweden driving a works Italian Lancia was officially announced winner Wednesday night with fellow countryman Ove Erikson In an Opel second. Third place went
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  • 55 23 BANGKOK— Host Thailand edged Indonesia, 2-1, in Wednesday night's second match of the third annual King's Cup football tournament before a roaring capacity crowd Of 40,000. In the first game of the semi-final round defending champion South Korea beat Malavsia 2-0 in a match that ree-saw-ed before
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  • 464 24  -  By KENT POTTER I\ACCA The starving peasants scrambled in Hie earth for rice between the carcasses of cattle dead 6 days. It was the orvly food available. 1 walked carefully between the thousands of human and animal bodies littering offshore Islands. Last week's cyclone
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  • 229 24 SAIGON South Vietnamese troops launched another thrust into East Cambodia yesterday, the South Vietnamese Command reported. Saigon's troops have, In less than 4 weeks, crossed the frontier in fi major points. They spread from west of the Mekong River almost to the triborder area where
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  • 128 24 MANILA—The worst typhoon in Manila's history roared through the Philippine capital area yesterday causing heavy damage and casualties in 3 hours of fury. The Government immediately declared "a state of calamity." At least 26 persons had been killed or were missing and 77 injured according to
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